It Takes a Lot More Than Christian E-books and Holy Land Gifts to Help Bring Your Family to Christ

You know, when you first become saved you can't wait to share your faith. You're bubbling over with excitement, brimming with the amazing discovery you've found. When you're filled with that fire it's easy to bring people to God, but as time goes by and your faith begins to fade a lot of that excitement disappears. In time you come to rely heavily on Christian e-books and books and Holy Land gifts to bring your family to Christ in the hope that they'll figure it out on their own. rnYou just don't have the enthusiasm you need to bring them to Christ, and as a result you're all going to be left spinning your wheels. Even Though the Path to Christ is Straightforward and Clear, Most People Need Someone to Follow Think about it for a moment. Did you come to Christ on your own? Or were you led there by someone's shining example? As Christians we know that it's our duty to spread the gospel…to be a "sermon in shoes" as the case may be. Chances are you probably didn't make the determination to come to Christ until someone had personally shared that sermon with you.rnWhen you first seek to bring your family to Crnhrist it's going to be up to you to lay the foundation. Why? Because while the Christian e-books and gifts and the Holy Land gifts you've been handing out for the past several years to anyone in your family who happened to look like they would use it can be an invaluable source of inspiration, you have to lay the foundation. Encouragement to act in a Godly manner means absolutely nothing if you have no idea who God is, what he's done and how acting in a Godly way will affect your life. You Have to Recommit Yourself to Christ before Anyone Will Commit with YournThe first thing you have to do, before you even consider bringing your family to Christ, is look at yourself. Are you strong in your faith? Do you do your devotionals daily, and continuously read those same Christian books and e-books that you're handing around? In other words, do you practice what you preach? Remember, your family is going to be looking at you to serve as their example before God. They're going to learn from you. To the uneducated Christianity appears to be a cult religion, full of blasphemers and hypocrites. Hey, it's the popular opinion. If you're going to take them past this misguided belief you're going to have to do it by standing in the gap. If you can't serve as a true representative of God, if you can't give your testimony without using the words "but" or "however", and if you can't honestly say that your heart and your motives are pure you're never going to bring anyone to Christ, much less the people who know you best.rnYou need that fire back. Christian Gifts are an Inspiration, Not a Foundation The bottom line is that Christian e-books, Christian gifts and Holy Land gifts, no matter how inspiring or inspired they happen to be, were never intended to bring people to Christ. They were intended to be a constant, visible reminder of the commitment you've already made. They can help you straighten out your problems (some Christian self help books are fantastic for helping you get to the root of your problems, since they're built on the Bible rather than a foundation of pop psychology) but they're not going to help your family truly find God. To do that you're going to have to be the shining example for them of everything being a Christian can be. Then, and only then, will they be able to find their way back home in Christ's loving arms.